[svlug] Two stupid FAQ questions about VI...

[Seth David Schoen]

Seth David Schoen writes:

> If you don't want to rely on having saved the buffer, you could
> 
> :1,$|wc -w
> 
> (which replaces the buffer with the number of words in it).
> 
> Then immediately
> 
> u
> 
> to get the buffer back!

Oops.  The ex command cited above should actually be

:1,$!wc -w

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   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do."  And they
said, "Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the
nations." (1 Sam 8)  http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/   http://www.loyalty.org/

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